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Jason O’Toole
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Jason O’Toole @operationriskyou.bsky.social · Jun 3
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My newest collection from NY's Dead Man's Press Ink is available in 2 formats, one of them free:

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12/7/25 at 7 pm, be at Portsmouth's The Press Room for Lauren and me backed by a full band for the last Beat Night of the year!
#PortsmouthNH #NewEnglandPoetryClub #poetlaureate #spokenword #poetry
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Next week! No, Lauren and I aren't prom king and queen, but we will perform poetry backed by the great Beat Night Band. #poetry #NewEnglandPoetryClub #poetlaureate #beatpoet
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Minibeast (x-Mission for Burma) at No Fun, Troy, NY. 12.06.25
#postpunk #Boston
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Minibeast at NO FUN, Troy, NY - December 6, 2025. X-Mission for Burma.
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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SWRM sound check at No Fun, Troy, NY. #SWRMPVD
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Issue 13 of Molecule, dedicated to the late Jennifer Martelli - features my poem Away - one of the winners of the 2025 Mass Poetry Fest contest.
#litmag #poetry #writingcommunity
#NewEnglandPoetryClub
#SalemState #MassPoetry
Molecule - a tiny lit mag
Visit the post for more.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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My Amy Lowell Prize winning poem is at 1:17:20.
#NewEnglandPoetryClub
#poetrycommunity
#booksy
New England Poetry Club Award Readings Nov. 2025
YouTube video by New England Poetry Club
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December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Lionfish, sand diver and pipefish encountered on my recent trip to Nassau.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Italian TV is a fever dream.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Never Say Never Again
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reposted by Jason O’Toole
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Made some book promos this weekend. More info on all three books is on my website (rafinleybooks.com) with links to online ordering — ebook and print — or ask your favorite local bookstore or library to order for you (with my thanks!)
Book promotion image. A snowy scene with a bird flying away from the viewer. The text overlaid reads: When it came to making the wise choice, her impulse was to choose Cormac. He was complication, aggravation, and deceit. Mystery and shadow. What sort of fool would choose that over her own best interest? She was beyond exhausted. She absolutely had to go to bed. Because she was choosing to be wise, it felt important to be honest. "I don't want to." "Nor do I want you to." It seemed he was also making the wise choice. She let that settle a moment, or tried to. It was like trying to coax butter Aies to land. She wasn't alone in wanting. It was thrilling and terribly, terribly complicated. THE VALE OF SILENCE The Wheel of the Year: Book Three BY R. A. FINLEY
May 11, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Bumping as three people saw it...and I'm told it's a MAJOR AWARD!
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Jason O’Toole
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🚨Day 302 The fight against fascism takes all of us fighting

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Tools, Resources & Actions vs Fascism

Today’s Agenda: tr.ee/day302

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November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I'm back home for the weekend - and always glad to hear that William is still doing well.
At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians
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November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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As Treasurer for ILRCSF, I mourn the passing of Alice Wong, a friend to center and one of the greats.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The Northern Lights are so bright on Veterans Day that they're plainly visible over the bright lights of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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A poem for my grandpa, Cpl. Vincent Lenz of the storied Super Sixth. #VeteransDay
Valor Concealed
In memory of a shellshocked Veteran of a Fucked-up War
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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#NewEngland #Massachusetts #MerrimackValley #OscarWilde
She's Beyond Good and Evil
The House Beautiful at Osgood Hill
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Dancing about architecture:
She's Beyond Good and Evil
The House Beautiful at Osgood Hill
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November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Kelly and the Klan:
Kelly Loeffler posing with Klan leader Chester Doles with the caption reading "save America, stop socialism" followed by the number 61, symbolic in the KKK of the civil war to preserve slavery.
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"I awakened to the cry

that the people have the power

to redeem the work of fools

upon the meek the graces shower

it's decreed the people rule”

- Patti Smith, from People have the Power (1988)
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Presenting my Amy Lowell Prize winning poem:
#NewEnglandPoetryClub #poetry #writingcommunity #booksy
Jason O’Toole, “Astropastoral (The Second Pentacle of the Sun)” – New England Poetry Club
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November 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Come back with me to one of the rowdiest nights in punk history...which in 1987, could have been just about any night. #NYHC #DagNasty #DCHardcore #Ramones #GBH #BeastieBoys
Wig Out at The Ritz
One Night in NY Hardcore - September 1987
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November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM